Re: Legal Stuff!

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From: Jyrki Kuoppala
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:19

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In article <1992Dec21.203115.12176@netcom.com>, strnlght@netcom (David Sternlight) writes:
>Next Vesselin claims U.S. users may obtain PGP legally from a number
>of U.S. sites, which he lists. He is mistaken. It is on those sites
>illegally, for reasons stated just above, and ftping them to other
>U.S. sites is just as illegal. It does not matter who did the
>importing; possession of illegally imported munitions is illegal.
>Maybe in Bulgaria what is physically possible is equivalent to what is
>legal, but not in the U.S.

Could you site the law which makes this illegal?  Has anyone been
convicted of this?

//Jyrki

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From: jkp@cs.HUT.FI (Jyrki Kuoppala)
Subject: Re: Legal Stuff!
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Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 13:19:28 GMT
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